JAWED KARIM: The *Secret* Story Of Youtube’s Co-Founder And The First Youtuber

• HE IS THE CO-FOUNDER OF YOUTUBE. 

Jawed Karim co-founded YouTube, an online video sharing platform, together with Steven Chen and Chad Hurley in 2005. Jawed met the two while he was working at PayPal. Steven and Chad were interested in Jawed as they had heard about his excellent tech skills as he had invented PayPal’s powerful anti-internet fraud system.

The YouTube concept was born but beginning the channel was not easy at first due to the many steps involved. The three YouTube founders were relieved when Sequoia Capital and Artis Capital, funded YouTube with 11.5 million and 8 million respectively, the developmental stages of the app and website were made easier. Money solves problems.

Jawed was the first person ever in the world to create a YouTube channel. He was also the first person to post a video. Both were done on 23rd April 2005. Jawed agreed to take a lower share in the company and remain as an informal adviser while studying instead of being an employee.

Jawed remains to be one of the shareholders of YouTube, a video sharing platform, with 137,443 shares of stock which were about $64 million at the time of purchase by Google in 2006. He is also one of the greatest advisers of YouTube to date.

Jawed Karim has updated the video description on his first video to “I can’t comment here anymore, as I don’t want a Google+ account”.

He also pointed out the ability to easily and quickly identify bad content as an essential feature of a user-generated content platforms.

• HE IS A TECHNOLOGY SPEAKER.

Ever since Jawed Karim was known to be one of the cofounders of YouTube, he has been invited to speak in many forums. In May 2008, YouTube Co-Founder Jawed Karim made his first public speech at the University of Illinois where he was invited to speak about the history of YouTube and how the YouTube concept was born in the May 2008 ACM Conference. He was later on announced as the 136th and youngest commencement speaker in the school’s history.

To book Jawed Karim as the speaker of your next school or corporate event, click here to check his availability and charges. The topics he covers are based around Social Media, Robotics, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Innovation, Hardware, Cybersecurity, E-commerce, YouTube, and many more. All things tech!!

• HE IS THE FOUNDER OF Y VENTURES. 

Many people often ask, where is Jawed Karim today/now? Jawed Karim is focusing on his businesses.

Jawed Karim is an internet entrepreneur. He founded a venture fund investment group called Youniversity Ventures which is commonly known as Y Ventures. He founded it in March 2008 together with his partners Keith Rabois and Kevin Hartz.

Just in case you are wondering, Keith Rabois is also a partner at Khosla Ventures and Kevin Hartz is the co-founder of Eventbrite.

Y Ventures has invested in numerous growing companies such as Airbnb the hospitality service company, Reddit, Eventbrite, and Palantir, just to mention a few. The company aims to provide finances to university entrepreneurs and generally first-time entrepreneurs with great ideas.

Click here to have a look at Y Ventures’ website and to read more about the work they are doing with companies they have funded and partnered with.

Did you know that Jawed Karim was one of the major voices behind Google plus delinking itself from YouTube? He was able to sensitize the YouTube community against having to use their real names as google plus users to comment on YouTube videos as they were already using google accounts. Google plus eventually shut down as security threats and low usage.

To be a member of the YouTube community and comment on YouTube today, you only need a google account.